State v. Thomas

PARKER, Judge.

The crimes for which defendant was tried occurred in the early afternoon of 6 August 1976 at the Center Grocery, operated by Henry Prevatte. Pearl Kinlaw Stanley, testifying for the State, stated that she was driving home on 6 August and drove past Mr. Prevatte’s grocery store on the way. She noticed a dark red car beside the store, and a black man was standing to the right of the car, wiping the hood.. She attached no particular significance to these observations until she arrived at her home and heard on her police scanner radio that the grocery store had been robbed.

Defendant…